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sinister
sinister is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
- 2adjective
Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
- 3adjective
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
- 4adjective
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
- 5adjective
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
"a baleful look"
"forbidding thunderclouds"
- 6adjective
on or starting from the wearer's left
"bar sinister"
- 7adjective
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable-Thomas Hardy
"black deeds"
"a black lie"
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